Menu for VE day celebrations at RAF Boscombe Down, 1945.

Souvenir menu for the VE Day celebrations at RAF Boscombe Down, 1945.

This menu for the VE Day celebrations at RAF Boscombe Down contains a detailed list of food available for breakfast, dinner, tea and an evening dance buffet. Additionally, it contains a message from the station commander at the time, Air Commodore J. N. Boothman. During the Second World War, RAF Boscombe Down's primary operational purpose became as a research and testing station for aircraft. The site remains a testing site for military aircraft to this day.